A slow month at Stanton Estates

Progress seems surprisingly slow over the last month on our new home – at least partly because the recent work included all the electrical wiring, and there’s a lot of it!

At the end of last month, most of the windows were installed, and the huge sliding doors at the back – though the big one in our future master bedroom was missing (and is still missing today!). Today, our visit showed us that the front doors have been installed (and also the “cabana door” to the back, which will one day have a cat door for Chloe:

The last month also included further plumbing work, along with all the electrical wiring; progress at the future fuse panel gives an idea:

 

Today we also found a huge pile of roof tiles in front of our home; a long way to go till they’re installed on the roof though:

Selling Sunshine at Winter Garden Heritage Foundation

We visited the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation this evening for a short talk and exhibit about “Selling Sunshine“, the promotion of Florida and especially of citrus crops – mostly in the past since the business is disappearing these days (after all, we live where once were citrus groves!)

Some very interesting “posters” mostly magazine adverts from many years ago; it’s clear that claims made then would not be acceptable today!

A small display of advertising “trinkets” from days past, too:

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